Bio

Sam Gagner Bio

Gagner has done something no other NHL player in the 21st century has accomplished: score eight points in a game. He scored four goals and assisted on four others for the Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks on Feb. 2, 2012, becoming the first NHL player in more than 23 years to have eight points in a game. He also became the second player in NHL history to have eight points in a game when his team scored exactly eight goals; the other was Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Dec. 31, 1988.

Gagner has done something no other NHL player in the 21st century has accomplished: score eight points in a game. He scored four goals and assisted on four others for the Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks on Feb. 2, 2012, becoming the first NHL player in more than 23 years to have eight points in a game. He also became the second player in NHL history to have eight points in a game when his team scored exactly eight goals; the other was Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Dec. 31, 1988.

The son of former NHL forward Dave Gagner was the Oilers' first pick (No. 6) in the 2007 NHL Draft. He had 13 to 18 goals and 41 to 49 points in each of his first five seasons with the Oilers. But the Oilers traded him to the Tampa Bay Lightning on June 29, 2014; one hour later, the Lightning traded him to the Arizona Coyotes. He played one season with the Coyotes, then struggled in 2015-16 with the Philadelphia Flyers before scoring 18 goals and finishing with an NHL career-high 50 points playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2016-17.

The Vancouver Canucks signed him to a three-year contract on July 1, 2017.